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Across
  1. 3. was a world's fair held in Atlanta, Georgia, from October 4 to December 31 of 1881. The location was along the Western & Atlantic Railroad tracks near the present-day King Plow Arts Center development in the West Midtown area.
  2. 5. laws created to keep blacks away from whites
  3. 6. a tax black people had to pay before they could vote. at the time most blacks were poor and could not pay.
  4. 8. Georgia's three most powerful and prominent politicians of the post-Reconstruction era
  5. 12. ways that whites prevented blacks from voting
  6. 14. parting or keeping away two things and/or groups
Down
  1. 1. American journalist and orator who helped reintegrate the states of the Confederacy into the Union after the American Civil War. Grady encouraged the industrialization of the South.
  2. 2. Violent reprisals by armed mobs of White Americans against African Americans in Atlanta, Georgia, began after a group of black men supposedly raped 4 women on the evening of September 22, 1906, and lasted through September 24, 1906.
  3. 4. time period after reconstruction
  4. 7. civil rights activist born in barrington massachusetts also co founder of the NAACP
  5. 9. the trial of a man who was accused of killing a 13 year old girl and imprisoned then later captured from prison a lynched
  6. 10. an entrepreneur who was born into slavery and was founder and president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Company
  7. 11. a court trial that was held for a man, who sat in the whites only section of the east louisiana railroad
  8. 13. a reading and writing test blacks had to fill out before they could vote. most blacks could not read or write so they could not vote.